Crane – Fast and Migratable GPU Passthrough for OpenCL applications
University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
University of Toronto, Technical Report, 2017
@article{gleeson2017technical,
title={Technical report: Crane-Fast and Migratable GPU Passthrough for OpenCL applications},
author={Gleeson, James and Kats, Daniel and Mei, Charlie and de Lara, Eyal},
year={2017}
}
General purpose GPU (GPGPU) computing in virtualized environments leverages PCI passthrough to achieve GPU performance comparable to bare-metal execution. However, GPU passthrough prevents service administrators from performing virtual machine migration between physical hosts. Crane is a new technique for virtualizing OpenCL-based GPGPU computing that achieves within 5.25% of passthrough GPU performance while supporting VM migration. Crane interposes a virtualization-aware OpenCL library that makes it possible to reclaim and subsequently reassign physical GPUs to a VM without terminating the guest or its applications. Crane also enables continued GPU operation while the VM is undergoing live migration by transparently switching between GPU passthrough operation and API remoting.
June 10, 2017 by hgpu
